THANKS FROM JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 218, 12 September 1923, Page 5

THANKS FROM JAPAN.

MESSAGE TO AMESICA. | iKeeelved 11.SO n.ni.l WASHINGTON, September 11. The Japanese Ambassador to Washington has conveyed to the President of tbT' I'nited States the grateful thanks t>l the Prime Minister of Japan and her people for American assistance. The Prime Minister snvs: ".Inpan thanks America for its precious gift of sympatby. Jt cannot fail to aid in preserving the peace of the world and in still more closely uniting the two countries in bonds" of friendship and trust." (A- and X.Z. Cable.) PROMPT AMERICAN AID. A STATE VOTE. lltcccivecl l<l.Bo a.m.) WASHINGTON', September 11. Mr. Woods, American Consul at Tokyo, tables asking a million dollars' credit immediately forViapanese relief. He says severe lever has broken out in Tokyo. The American Red Cross has passed a vote of four million dollars for relief work.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) FEVER IN TOKYO. SUM OF -£200,000 WANTED. WASHINGTON". September 11. The outbreak of epidemic, fever in Tokyo is reported by the I'nited States Ambassador (Mr. Cyrus K. Woods), who has cabled to the United States Government intimating that it i* imperative that 1,00(1,000 dollars of Red Cross funds ■be placed immediately at the disposal of the relief committee in .lapan lor the quick purchase of medical supplies and food in the nearest markets.—A. and N.Z. Cable.) SURVIVORS GO MAD. INSANE WITH TERROR. XKW YORK, September 11. A wireless message from Tokyo, received by the Inited Press of America, states that a 'renewed earthquake shook Japan on Sunday. The tremor added to the people's terror, but only slightly increased the havoc already wrought. Many refugees are going mad as the result of their experiences. Twelve foreigners, who escaped from Yokohama, arc already hopelessly insane from having to stand helplessly by and observe the tortures of live children burning to death. The work of reconstruction will take years, and is comparable to the task of rebuilding the devastated areas of France. Tokyo's business centre, which was seven miles long and two miles wide, is now mainly ashes. Reports show that the coast for 200 miles was swept by landslides, all hotels on cliffs toppling into the sea as though pushed by a giant hand.—(A. and NX Cable.)

SYMPATHY OF PRESBYTERY. The calamity -which has befallen the Japanese nation with f-ueh wide-spread destruction of life and property drew forth an expression of sympathy at the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery last evening. The Presbytery also commended to the liberality of the members of its churches the proposed appeals by our own Government or civil authorities for the relief of the victims ot the disaster.